[governance] rights based approach to the Internet

[Avri Doria]

On 14 Apr 2008, at 13:02, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> because asynchronous
> text is the absolute worst medium for achieving consensus ever devised
> by man.


i might quibble about it being the worst medium known, but it  
certainly isn't very dynamic.

i might suggest using http://docs.google.com/ as an easy (just like  
using a word editor) free and open ... and somewhat better medium for  
working out consensus text (i believe i have used it successfully on  
several occasion in other groups at least as dynamic in opinion as  
this one.)

but since google is a private enterprise and thus anathema to many  
people, i won't suggest it because i don't want to get beat up for  
being a friend to the private sector.

if i were to have suggested it, then i would have suggested that those  
who wanted to actively work on such a doc could invite each other to  
partiapte - inviting anyone from the IGC that asked.  while the rest  
of us who intend to just watch could just watch.  and if one of the  
passive minority felt like commenting on the list on what we were  
watching, then one of those actively editing could, if so inclined,  
cnsider adding ur small suggestion to the text.

but as i say. i am not suggesting it to this group, but in the best of  
all possible worlds, i might have.

a.


PS.  as for an appeals team mechanism to force a recall vote for  
coordinator, i can't see us as being anywhere close to that state of  
affairs (assuming we even still have an appeals team since their terms  
were up with Vittorio's).


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